#5895 NORM Never A: Sugar signal-quality indicator gives bogus indications

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#5895: Sugar signal-quality indicator gives bogus indications
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 Reporter:  mleech       |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro       |     Version:                
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0             
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 Sugar wireless signal quality indicator seems not to reliably deal
   with *really good* signals.

 Signal-to-noise using /sbin/iwconfig eth0 showed 50dB SNR, but sugar
   indicator was all grey.  With SNR improving to 60dB SNR, it went
   all green.  This *seems* like integer overflow or something similar
   to me.  Given that you can get pretty good results with WiFi over
   a broad range of SNRs, quantizing the colour scheme in the sugar
   signal indicator is a bit of a challenge, but this struck me as
   odd.

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